there was also a gun rights rally at a national park in virginia. congress recently passed a bill making it legal to carry guns property in virginia. our peggy fox reports. >> i'm sure a lot of our words today will be twisted and planted. >> reporter: right at start, a speaker barbed the media even though there were more media than gun rights advocates who were becoming first demonstrators to carry guns in a national park. >> people exercising the second amendment right because if we don't, it will be taken away eventually. >> they rallied at graphic ry point next to national airport and across from the nation's capital where gun laws are far more strict than in virginia. even though it's legal to carry a fully-loaded weapon out here, the organizers agreed to have their people strap their rifles to their back, unloaded. >> reporter: but their handguns were loaded. it's a sight that angered them. >> to do this on the 15th anniversary oklahoma city bombings is disgraceful. >> the idea they want to intimidate us. >> reporter: she's referring to mike va